• @[email protected]
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    612 months ago

    Government-sponsored facial recognition aside, I was gonna celebrate this as a rare event of a government doing something right, but then

    The measures don’t apply to researchers or to what machine translation of the rules describes as “algorithm training activities” – suggesting images of citizens’ faces are fair game when used to train AI models.

    and I feel like that undermines the entire idea, since you can easily hide behind that excuse and not give a shit. And given previous circumstances, I feel like a lot of companies are gonna get away with it.

  • 21Cabbage
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    452 months ago

    That’s a fantastic move but it also goes under “worst guy you know makes a great point”.

  • @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    I’m sure that ban doesn’t apply to government operated facial recognition cameras though.

    • Makhno
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      32 months ago

      I think it’d be naive to assume your own government isn’t doing the same thing

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    Facial recognition is dystopian, sure. But its also a security risk against foreign adversaries. No, sir, it is not `on brand´ for China.